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oh well. my multi went down the tube when mithali only ran 5th instead of placing. my wingman won paying $1.85 and hes a loch won paying $41. i see just easy scr because of an incident with the float coming off but apparently horses ok. Whats the bet jr toilen runs a place as i normally just miss 1 when taking a multi.

leap to fame didn't have the foot down all the way last night. Dixon happy to treat the race more as a training run with $85,000 to add to his kitty. republican party went a nice race for 2nd but did get the perfect run and never looked like getting past leap to fame. Still 2nd to a champ like that pretty good. C dalgety, quite indecisive early and checked a couple of others and copped a suspension. Probably lucky the horse that got checked badly ,managed to stay pacing,obviously it was good on its feet. i still think the hunter cup will come down to draws. Swayzee still can win if he draws inside leap to fame.Kingman possibly as well. leap to fame chasing a $1m bonus. whoever the insurer is of that bonus can't be too clever,ever if leap to fame wasn't to win it. Still ,hopefully leap to fame can win it while it exists. mynameisjeff is very,very fast. don hugo set it up for a sprint home and was very good as well,but the other horse just too fast. mynameisjeff would have beaten any horse in australasia in a race that developed into a similar sprint up the straight the way he went.He needs a big track though.

i like that you've thought about think about it but yes i think your over thinking what you think i may be saying about think about it. the money part was reference that money unfortunately can't guarantee life or quality thereof,but that was not my main thought. i hope that clarifies things fior you but maybe it will confuse you more.

you've lost me there. I'm talking nz,not australia.

the life of a racehorse.He wins 12 million,the everest,suffers a massive bleed,survives that against the odds ,retires to be looked after by his everest winning jockey,then a year later,blow me down he dies a couple of weeks later after what had been described as successful surgery for a colic attack. theres a lit to tthink about there. why,life,the fleetingness of it,money.

australia really does sound a wonderful place the way you descibe it and its animals and other nature things . i once came across a wallaby in the middle of the night about 10 years ago,when just out of town. Spotted him just in time in my headlights to slam on the brakes,still hit him,not hard. He was knocked forward a wee bit. Got up and hopped off. Hopefully he was ok and learnt not to sit in middle of a country road.

why not?

of course. why else would i say it. but of course,you have to move with the times chief. i haven't mentioned ped use in nz harness for a couple of years now because i don't think its as relevant. I certainly think it still applies to some in australia. and of course,you and the media,rambled on for years how the all stars were so dominant because of blah,blah,blah. So what happend chief. What happened when the connections needed for that aspect dried up overseas. They came back to the field didn't they, as i predicted at the time.funny that. Why did hrnz never do anything about the person with the overseas connections and who was on the client list of the jailed vet in the usa.. Funny that. anyways,i'm not going to go over that again as we've argued about it enough in the past. besides.you do know,i only believe in conspiracy theories if they are true.Time has proven me correct hasn't it.

fair enough. I thought you were meaning on here mainly.I don't think it accurately described what i see on here. bit of a yarn is the only social media i do.i don't do facebook. and i always think bitter is a word used with negative connotations, to describe genuine feelings people may have about something they have experienced ,or someone,for which any reasonable person could often view having said negative feelings as fair enough. Not always,but often. But anyway, after rereading what i posted i think perhaps i over reacted to what i thought you were trying to say anyway. actually about half an hour ago i googled what best describes a person who makes 3 or more socail media posts a day.It gave 7 traits. Not 1 of them applied to me. not that i believe in putting labels on how people think. anyways,not to worry,i still made my point.

any news on the kangaroo that crashed into the cyclists in the tour down under even last week. Looked like the kangaroo came off the worst.I see the bloke that won sustained a broken wrist in the incident. Keep an eye out for kangaroos when driving gammalite.

it will be interesting to see how sam ottley gets bazzoka away from the stand. Ottley one of the best drivers in nz for getting horses to begin in standing starts. bazooka by bettors delight. I always think they tend to go away as well but still may be a shade slow. its interesting to watch ottley. She generally gives her horses a quick stand start practice in the preliminary. also if you watch her and b orange,they always try and have there horses in positions at the start where they are not lagging behind the others on ths same line. Theres nothing worse than having a horse start 3/4 length behind the others in the middle of a full line of horses. otlley and the likes of orange win so many races at the start through their skills at getting horses positioned to their best advantage behind the tape,as they line up. i'm not so sure about the late start. I'm getting rather bored waiting for the races to start as not much else to do today. looking at trackside i see its raining hard at the townsville dogs today.Thats queensland isn't it. Just looked it up, a 15 hour drive from brisbane.thats a long way. that would be like driving from dunedin to auckland. Without the water along the way.Australia a big country.

so this is social media site. The current topic reflects what you typically see on this forum and its got a lot of comment from regular contributors. and there you are generalising how you would sum up people who post on here,or say the other channel. so your either going to say,yes they are as described or no you weren't meaning the current ones posting.Of course if you weren't meaning the current ones posting then you undermine your own comments on what you describe as the typical poster. Also tell me,if many are anonymous like you say,how do you know so much about their personalities,motives and how they feel after posting and how they see the world. is the reality not,there will be people as you have described but your generlisation is just that. In other words your taling a smaller % of posters and placing greater emphasis that they are representative of all posters and people who comment on social media.Doesn't that reflect on how you see the world as well. so you post a put down generalisation of social media posters ,while knocking people who post put down generalisations on social media..Whats the point in that

the life of some racehorses can be fleeting. think about it,was retired after he collapsed and fell to the track 18 months ago, when suffering a massive lung bleed during a race.At the time to most observers it appeared he had collapsed and died,but then he surprised everyone who saw the race and got up and walked away,seemingly looking forward to retirement. Unfortunately last month he got sick again and had to have colic surgery. first signs after the surgery were he had cheated death for a 2nd time,but things took a turn for the worse and he was put down. he was only 7. He had won the everest in 2023 and earned $12m when trained by joe pride. he was a well named horse.people.

its hard to find horses paying reasonable prices these days. the bookies have the best chances too short,then the tote just follows the prices of the favorites in. Then if you get matt cross tipping the same horse,they end up paying even less. been following my wingman,only paying $1.85 to win today. should win,but $1.85. the best value always seems to come at methven. my tips for methven are race 2. Mithali for aplace at $4.80,race 4 hes a loch at $41 w $8 p,race 5 just easy$26 w and $6 p and race 11 jrtoilen at $2.90 p. so i will tip a multi of my wingman/win,mithali/p,hes a loch p,just easy w and jr tolilken p. For a $1 investment i expect to get $5356. Maybe i will do just easy for a place multi as well and collect $1236.or throw in hes a loch to win in that first multi to win and get $27,451 for my $1. don't say i didn't tell you beforehand.

they did cut the stakes paid out for the placegetters at addington. thats a common sense approach by hrnz as far as that race goes. they need to have some policy for all racing in nz as they have to start limiting the financial loss they must be generating by running those small field races And of course it should be applied not just to sothern racing,but to northern racing as well. Like they have a 5 horse race at auckland this week and they still seem to be paying out the full stake.It should be the same for them as well you would think.

i truly believe that the emphasis and importnace HRNZ and nz media put on slot races as a way of promoting the sport and rewarding the high end performers is a symptom of organisations out of touch with what is best for the industry. put simply,the hype is so out of touch with the realities of the publics and the grass roots industries interest in these events is so overblown,its just sad. I really don't get why anyone ,i mean anyone, would think the people who have starters at methven ,or winton or rangiora over the next couple of days would have more interest in a slot race than who they ran against at the workouts last week. In fact,i think you could guarantee every person who say ,has a non win horse running this weekend would be able to name lots and lots of horses that they have run against recently,yet if you ask them who are in the slot races at cambridge,they would go,i don't know,i guess leap to fame and kingman,then say,i'm not really too intersted in slot races. One day,it can't be too far away,maybe within 2 years,industry stakeholders are going to demand a seismic shift in who is governing HRNZ and who they prioritise. is as certain as day follows night. the so called smart people strategies have been ..we need change,because change is good...Well change is only ever good if it works better than what you had before.. harness racing just needs to get back to basics. all this money they are throwing away should be spent on so many other things of importance that will undermine the industry in years to come.. HRNZ priorites are away with the fairies and the NZ harness media is running alongside those fairies blowing them back in the air.

well fanfare went a nice race for 2nd,although its gait wasn't as fluent as it could be,but still inexperienced i suppose. king of swing was his sire,rocknroll hanover,obvious best horse in australasia. apart fromking of swing, rocknroll hanover probably didn't really get that much support down under.Some didn't seem to smoothest pacers,maybe that was a reason for that,i don't know. king of swingaccording to hrnz ,only has 15 2 year olds,8 yearlings and 6 foals on record. so i guess the stud would be very disappointed with the level of support so far. he got a bit of publicity as being a next gen eligible stallion,so iut will be interesting to see whether that meant he got anymore mares this year. he has 3 progeny to i can see at the upcoming sale in christchurch,so not many. it will be interesting when leap to fame goes to stud to see his level of support he gets. if king of swing was to produce a nice horse,it may help leap to fame. having said that,leap to fame is by bettors delight and has such a lovely action. Mind you knig of swing obviouslydid as well.

since i posted this comment,the horse akula has had its ownership changed officially on hrnz records,obviously done in the last 2 days by hrnz.So at least its finally been done i suppose. sold a year ago to n40 racing,according to hrnz records,the ownership is now k butt and n40 racing and that ownership was from 4.1.2026. Even though it met qualifying standards in a trial a week ago,its official racing status is shown as "unqualified or current qualification status unknown". the other 2 horses sold a year ago at the sales still have not had the ownership changed,but all 3 of the horses are shown trained by k butt. Correct procedure and what the rules say,seem simple enough to follow. The thing about yearling sales, is there doesn't appear any ambiguity to when a horse changes ownership,its pretty straight forward. But in this case,obviously not. HRNZ are the ones who promoted through lots of publicity on their website the horses concerned, yet its turned out they have been examples of hrnz official oversight which seems not to follow their own rules.

perhaps the biggest indicator of mr pinns regard for any of his fellow jockeys safety,was ...when asked if he had any submissions as regards the penalty after being found guilty,he said,he regarded the charge against him was a joke. his actions and his comments afterwards,to me are quite disturbing. those hearing that case should have imposed anger management as well. I say that from the perspective of what would assist mr pinn to race ride in a proper frame of mind.

I guess you are taking the piss. I suppose.

i see n40 racing had the first of its 3 high priced purchases from last years yearling sales,line up at the trials last week. The questions i have are ..is it normal for horses sold at nz yearling sales a year ago, to not change ownership officailly. ..And is it normal for the stipes to allow horses to start at trials,knowing that hrnz has the owner as someone who hrnz themselevs have publicised is not the owner and of course the stipes would have known that. I mean,maybe it is within the rules for hrnz to let horses start,when they obviously know the owners listed aren't correct.Will the stipes not only allow it to start at the trials,but can it race under ownership that sold it over a year ago. maybe someone can clarify what hrnz allow,i have read the rule . Is there some type of preferential treatment being shown for a big player,or does hrnz and the stipes allow all owners to run horses at trials and races,knowing the owners shown arenot the actual owners. . i note all 3 of the horses bought over a year ago at the sales by N40 racing, are still owned by the breeders who sold them at the sales,according to hrnz.

the harness 5000 concept. i understood that was the concept, where they have a raceday with 60,000 finals, for horses 3 years and older, whose sire was a stallion who had a stud fee that cost $5000 or less. so what your saying is, theres breeders out there who have factored in king of swings stud fee making their mares foals eligible, in a minimum of 4 years time ,for a one off race day,as the reason why they chose king of swing. look,hey,you may be right. But are breeders who actually thought like that being smart or just a bit gullible? Would they be the same breeders who bred to nz stallions 2 or 3 years ago on the promise they would be paid a 10% bonus for stakemoney earned when their progeny, by nz bred stallions,raced in years to come.Now scrapped. or would they be the same people who factored in their progeny getting paid $12,000 bonuses when they had their first 2 year old win. That also doesn't apply anymore. I don't really keep up with the different bonuses that get announced each year ,just the ones that are announced with much fanfare,but i've noted the obvious,some are quietly scrapped 2 or 3 years later,without any chance of those who factored them in the year they bred,ever getting a chance to have an opportunity to earn them. so ,while i don't want to put a dampener on anyone who may think the big stakes and the big bonuses will still be around in 4 years, shouldn't they at the very least use some common sense thinking and take a very cautious approach to such hrnz promises. yes,i know,mr steele has assured everyone that things are looking really positive and are on the right track and there will continue to be all this cash just sloshing around to be paid for the likes of bonuses,after the entain money has been spent,but wheres that money coming from and is that realistic thinking? i mean,for a stud it may be a good marketing ploy to promote the harness 5000 factor to breeders considering a sire,but have i missed something,as its it appears nothing more thanwishful think on the part of brrders. My guess would be,maybe there will be a harness 5000 in 4 years,maybe not,but the stakes will be reduced significantly if they still exist.

the first new zealand race starter,by king of swing is running on thursday at addington.Fanfare its name. its won each of its 4 trials so far,so looks promising. its a half brother to minstrel and some other handy horses. The dam is a mach three mare that it looks like the butts have bred 11 foals from the 16 yer old mare,so she already been a good producer. king of swing certainly a wonderful racehorse and seemingly very intelligent. will be interesting to see how fanfare goes. king of swing was $5000 plus gst last year in nz,$8000 plus gstin aussie. aussies obviously expected to pay the higher stud fee even though he's based there. Not sure how that works.

yes hrnz thinking has been,,because they're aren't many 2 year olds around to race, they need to encourage more and to achieve that the answer has been large bonuses,increased stakes and this year pay 90 of them $5000 just to start,even if they run a tailed off last. thats how hrnz think. its consistent with their thinking when it comes to north island harness racing. Up there they don't have enouigh horses to fill the fields, so HRNZ think the answer to that is more races. so theres that consistency in hrnz policy,that is ,the less horses you have available,the more racing you put on for them and the more you give them higher stakes to aim at. now clearly anyone can see that has not been working whatsoever and never made any sense in the first place,but they get points for consistency,even if its stupid. then hrnz's answer to the ATC financial worries is,don't worry,keep going as you are,because we've got your back and we will throw a few million into your financail hole,because we believe the population of auckland is going to all of a sudden have a change of heart and start supporting the harness product in auckland.And hrnz will budget $20m to build a training complex on a property that they don't even own. then HRNZ has said to cambridge,well,we know your in deep shit financially,but what does impress us is you only owe hrnz about 1.2-1.5 m,now thats pretty dam good when we compare you to ATC..So look,we know the slot races you ran added significantly to your debt,so hey,we have a solution to that. Lets have HRNZ run those slot races and take the financial hit,that way the good aussie horses can come and take even more nz harness indutsry money back to australia for their billionaire owners.. again pretty consistent thinking by hrnz. then there was nz sires bonuses. What they did there was say to people,breed to a nz sire and we will pay you bonuses when they race and win in years to come.But ,thers a catch,we may cancel those bonuses before you ever race.For unknown reasons,many seemed silly enough to think they may be getting a bonus for their foals sired by nz sires in the future,but no they wont,as very predictably, hrnz cancelled those. But your right brodie,not much point saying the same thing repeatedly as even we get tired of reading our own posts. as to the 2 year old race programmed for southalnd this week.My guess was they would get zero nominations. I based that on it appears they have no qualified 2 year old in southland yet. and the $12,000 stake.at addington. Points to hrnz at least showing some common sense by reducing the stake by 20% due to the small number of starters. But even a $12,000 stake seems ridiculous given it will generate no turnover whatsoever. It will be interesting to see whether the 20% is smoke and mirrors. In other words, will they be reducing the winning stakes by 20%,or is the 20% reduction just what would have come off anyway,due to not haveing any also rans to pay staring money. In other words ,unless they reduce the winning stakes,then they really are just playing with people.

i wonder how many they will get niminated for the southland 2 year old race. My guess is 0. we will see soon.